BlockYarmouth, Iowa
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1958 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 52660. The Survey maps it on the Morning Sun quadrangle. 61 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 807 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1958 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Davenport quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Morning Sun quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Muscatine quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Yarmouth between 2017 and 2019, burning about 29 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 6 June 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 17 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 12 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | not named |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yarmouth: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mediapolis Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yarmouth in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yarmouth | $5,000 | Winds estimated to be 65 mph blew down a telephone utility pole onto 205th Avenue south of County Highway H38 south of Yarmouth, IA partially blocking the road. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Yarmouth | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Yarmouth | $3,000 | Also heavy rain |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yarmouth | - | A public report of an estimated 58 MPH thunderstorm wind gust. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yarmouth | - | A trained spotter reported a large tree branch about 18 feet long was torn off a tree. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yarmouth | - | A trained spotter reported several tree branches down. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yarmouth | - | Wind gusts estimated to be 70 mph were observed in Yarmouth, IA at 500 pm CDT June 23. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Yarmouth | - | Heavy rains have resulted in flash flooding in the vicinities of Yarmouth, IA and Danville, IA during the early morning hours of June 22. County Road H38 (Mediapolis Rd) about 0.5 miles west of 205th St was impassable due to flood waters over the road. Flood waters were also flowing over a 100 yard stretch of road near the intersection of Pleasant Grove Rd and County Road X31 (Danville Rd). |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Yarmouth | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Yarmouth | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Yarmouth | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roscoe | 3.4 miles | 7 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Garland | 6.0 miles | 11 | |
| Mediapolis | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Kline | 9.4 miles | 17 | |
| Dodgeville | 9.5 miles | 17 | |
| Sperry | 10.1 miles | 17 | |
| Kossuth | 10.1 miles | 11 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Yarmouth | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8049379 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 463236. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.